Barcelona gothic: Carlos Ruiz Zafón's La sombra del viento and the omnipresent past.
This article looks at La sombra del viento as a highly self-conscious gothic text in light of the recent critical debate about the novel's contribution to the growing tradition of the 'memory text'. Although these two modes may seem to have little in common, there is one important point at which the...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Romance Studies Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 72 - 85 |
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